Country Tonite Music Show Pigeon Forge, Tenn....
….What a waste of two hours!!...I went to this-ahem-show last Sunday the 19th believing I would be immersed in a review of vintage/classic country music....What I experienced was so bad and disappointing it left me speechless,...Picture the classic scene in Mel Brook's 'The Producers' where after performing Springtime for Hitler the camera pans to the audience's reaction and they are seen to be all in shock....This was how I felt one-half hour into it...
...The-ahem-show consisted of:...
15 minutes-- intro where the emcee boasted of how 'good' the upcoming show was while selling music cd's to the audience........shameless hucksterism...
5 minutes-- honoring people in the audience who were married 50 years, or who had brought timeshares in local resorts...whaaa??!..
15 minutes-- not-yet-ready-for-prime-time vocalists singing 30 second snippets of classic country music artists viz, Hank Williams, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline, etc...
10 minutes of a man playing on a harmonica....I kid you not...
15 minutes-- slapstick comedy that would not have made Yee-Haw..
Intermission (Thank you Lord)
15 minutes-- country disco?? or what passed for country in the 80s and 90s and to the present sung by the aforementioned....
15 minutes-- more slapstick comedy...not even on the level of I Love Lucy skits from the 50s....
5 minutes-- sappy love song which was done by the artist to show a montage in the background of his wife and his own wedding.......drivel...
5 minutes-- sappy melancholy song which was done by the artist as a tribute to his own father again with a montage in the background......drivel..
5 minutes-- sappy song about babies still failing to understand how that had anything to do with country...
10 minutes-- gospel music....
5 minutes-- tribute to veterans......yes, but what does that have to do with country music?....
…...One would think that that breakdown of the-ahem-show would alone be sufficient to pan it.......But no!!!......Many of the songs(?) were performed by pre-pubescent 10 year olds....I KID YOU NOT!.......Picture a 10 year old boy dressed up as a Blues Brother doing a Michael Jackson moonwalk across the stage while attempting to sing Presley”s 'Hound Dog'.......Utter hogwash.....Picture 10 year old girls similarly channeling country legends while bouncing around on stage in short petticoat skirts cut up to their underwear......I am sure this type of show will appeal to the ...”aahh, isn't that so sweet” crowd, and to the geriatric pervs in the audience who get off on kiddie porn.....
….....In closing, if Country Music had an award akin to the Razzberries this show would win it for 2019 hands down....Country Tonite should be renamed --- Country Rubbish!....